On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Vickram Crishna wrote: > > History Lesson: > > The Mission 2007 initiative was floated in 2005, and quickly found > support > > from 'Green Revolution' MS Swaminathan, who is concerned about the lack > of > > 'connection' between the farming sector and urban India. MSSRF supported > > meetings of potential stakeholders and enthusiasts, held in different > parts > > of India, leading up to a formulation of a broad plan for driving > > connectivity within rural India by Independence Day 2007*. > > Back-of-the-envelope calculations put the cost at around Rs 6,300 cr, > that > > would deliver connectivity to at least one node within each of India's > > 640,000 revenue villages. It was a totally FOSS-based plan. > > *60 years after Independence was declared, a date that had meaning for > some > > of us > > Ok this was the wireless mesh project, a pilot of which was tested in > HBCSE. >
Not really. In fact, I don't really recall there being any connection, other than my being at both sets of meetings. fyi, wireless mesh is more than 'pilots', in fact, at the time we (India) had already got several mesh networks running in different parts of the country. Mesh networking has since then become much more reliable and industrial strength. It is also much wider in scope, with new devices under development (and being tested in India) that bring an entirely new model of smart telephony to the table. Incidentally, something to chew over (if you like chewing over such things). While we are all familiar with Ubuntu, it is distinctly odd (not a 'bad' odd, merely different) that more such open initiatives are emerging from South Africa, of all places, no fount of liberty. Ubuntu is of course due to the philanthropic support of millionaire Shuttleworth, but others are not. What restrains Indian millionaires from supporting game-changing open initiatives in India? -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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